Ozonizer.



I. E. WARMAN.

OZONIZER.

APPLICATION FLLED APR. 18. 19:7.

Patented Fb.19,1918.

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J. E. WARMAN.

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APPLICATION FILED APR..1-8. I917.

Patented Feb. 19, 1918.

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JOHN E. WARMAN, OF SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOGEORGE H. E. LICHTHARDT, 0F SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.

OZONIZEB.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN E. WARMAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Sacramento, in the county of Sacramento and State ofCalifornia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inOzonizers; and I do hereby declare'the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of they invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. I

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in ozonizers, andis particularly applicable to motor vehicles in order to produce acombustible vapor of high etliprovide a means for warming and moisten--ing the air and also for interrupting a high frequency current in thepath of the warm moist air in order to produce the desired results.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in thenovel combination and arrangement of parts which will be fully set forthin the following specification and accompanying drawings, in Wl1iCh2-Figure 1 is a side view of an internal combustion engine showing thisdevice applied thereto;

Fig.'2 is an enlarged transverse sectional view through the air intake,showing in de tail the warming and moistening chamber;

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view through Fig. 2 on a reducedscale;

Fig. 4 is a top plan view of Fig-3, showing the cover plate removed;

Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail view of the carbureter, illustrating theair intake;

enlarged scale threugh the interrupter; and

' Fi 7 is a vertical sectional view throu h.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Fig. 6 is a transverse sectionalview on an Patented Feb. 19, me.

Application filed April 18, 1917. Serial No. 163,012.

Referring to thedrawings, the numeral 1 designates an internalcombustion engine'of the usual ty e provided with an ordinary intakemanifbld 2 and exhaust manifold 3. A suitable magneto 4 is operated bythe motor and has leading therefrom a conductor wire 5 which isconnected to the distributer 6. The water manifold is designated by thenumeral 7 and leading from the exhaust manifold is the exhaust pipe 8,around which the air warming chamber is secured. The carbureter 9 isattached to the intake manifold and is provided with the usual gasoleneor fuel oil inlet 10 and the air inlet 11.

The air warming chamber is illustrated in Fig. 2 and comprises alowersection 12 having its upper edge provided with an attaching flange 13 towhich the upper section 14 is secured. The upper and lower sections areformed in their end walls at their meet- .ing edges with semi-circularrecesses forming an aperture when the device is assembled to receive theexhaust pipe 8 as clearly illustrated in the drawings. The lower section12 has formed in its side walls adjacent their lower edges the airintake 0 enings 15 and formed in the bottom wall 0 the lower section isthe air outlet 16. The air intake pipe 17 extends through the opening 16and has its upper end disposed in a plane with the upper edges of thewall of the lower sec tion.- The upper section 1t has secured therein asuitable screen fabric 18 upon which water from a suitable water inletpipe 19 is dripped which pipe is connected to the water manifold 7 or toany suitable sourceof supply. The water dripping on the screen 18 willbeevenly distributed over the screen so that the air assing through theopening 15 into the p1pe17 will pass beneath the moistened screen andabsorb part of the moisture. 'As shown in Fig. 2, the screen engages theupper side of the exhaust pipe so'that the heat from said exhaust pipewill be distributed over the screen and serve to Warm the water thereonand the air passinginto-the chamber. In this way it will be seen thatthe air entering the pipe 17 will be warmedjand moistened prior v '27provided with a web 28 which supports connected to -the moistener andheater is connected to the ozonizerdesignated generi-v cally by thenumeral which comprises. a shell 21 formed of a suitable insulator and.having on opposite side edges suitable heads '22 one of which isremovable as illustrated in Fig. 6 in order to render the'deviceaccessible.

1o" are threaded, the inner ends ,of which are provided with socketsfor-the receptron' --of the tapered ends of'theis-hfaft 26 WhlCh Formedon the heads 22 are central threaded bosses 23 into which the screws 24support the interrupter.' The. interrupter above referred to consists ofa hub member at its outer edge a rim -29 to which the curved'blades 30are attached. These, blades as illustrated in Fig. '6, are apertured asat 31 to allow the passage of air therethrough, but it will beunderstood that the resistance area of the blades are 'suchas to causethe I interrupter 'to' revolve within the shell 20 posite point to theair inlet is the air outlet when air is drawn through the-same. Atta'ched to the shell 20 at a diametrically oppipe 31 and arranged atright angle to the air inletand outlet pipes are terminals 32 vwhich areconnected to the wire 5 between the magneto 4 and the distributer 6; Itwill thus'be seen that the current passing from the magneto to thedistributer will -neces-.

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sar'ily have to are between the blades 30 and '-terminals 32 so that thewarm moist air passing through the device will. be acted upon by thearc"and the air passing out of the. ozonizer will-'Lbeconsiderably em-ichedwith ozone so that: when the same is admitted to the air intake ofthecarbureter it will be in much better condition to mix with the fueland will produce a highly, combustible vapor which W111. increase theefiiciency of the In use it will be seen -lthat the device is connectedto the motor as illustrated in-Fig.

'1 and the intake stroke of the pistons withner previously described.

bination and arran 1 -in the cylinders will cause a draft of air throughtheozonizer thereby causing the interrupter to revolve and interruptthe-current passing through thedevice,"-- thus caus-' -mg.an' are whichacts on the air in the manf e in' the foregoing there; has shown anddescribed thepreferred embodiment'of this invention, it is to .beunderstoodthat such changes maybe made in the coinfall' within thespirit and scope ofsthe'apded claims. I I} I Whatis claimed is:-'-

-1.' The combination witha motor vehicle I having a carbureter providedwith an" air ili'take and a high tension ignition circuit,

ofan oz'onizerlconnected to the air; intake and to the high tensionignition circuitifor.

. manifold ent ofparts" asiwill increasing the efliciency of thecombustible 4 elements of the air prior to'admitting" the same to thecarbureter.

2. The combination with a motor vehicle having a carbureter providedwith an air intake and a high tenslon'i ition circuit, of a rotaryozonizer connecte to the air intake and to the high tension ignitioncircuit for increasing the efiiciencyof the combustible elements of theair prior to admitting the same to the carbureter. a

3. The comb'nation-with an internal com-v bustion engine having acarbureter provided" with an air intake, an exhaust manifold and a hightension ignition clrcuit, cf an ozonizer connected to the air intake andto the;

high tension ignition circuit whereby the air admitted to the carbureterwill be acted upon by the current passing through the ozonizer and meansto heat the air prior to its admlssion to the ozonizer.

4. The combination with an internal combustion engine having acarbureter provided. r

with an air intake, an exhaust manifold and a hlgh tenslonignition'circuit, of an ozonizer connected to the air intake and to the hightension ignition circuit whereb the air admitted to the carbureteli willacted .uponby"the current passing throu h the ozonizer, and meanssurrounding t e exhaust manifold to warm the air prior to its 7 aadmission to the ozonizer.

- 5. The comblnation with an 1nternal com-- bustion enginehaving. acarbureter provided Y with an air intake, an exhaust manifold and amagneto, of an ozonizer connected to the air intake and to themagneto-whereby the air admitted tothe carbureter will. be.acted fupon'by thecurrent passing through the'ozon-' izer, means surrounding theexhaust manifold to warm the air prior to its admission to the ozonizer,and means connected to the air warming device to moisten the air;

' 6. The combination with an internal com-1 bustion engine having acarbureter provided with an air intake, an exhaust manifold and.

a magneto, of an ozonizer connected to the air-intake and to the magnetowhereby-the upon by the'current passing through the air warmingdevice tomoisten t to its. admission to the ozonizer,

- '7. "The combination with an internal com bustion en e havinga..carbureter, a mag-1 lneto, an ex aust pipe and a distributer con-Lnected tothe magnetmofan air warming chamber surroundin the exhaustpipe, air molstemng means within the chamber, a circular casmg, apipe-leading from the warmingchamber' to the casin a i leadin from thetolthe iii the bureter, a pair of diametricall arranged In testimonywhereof I aflix my signature contacts in the casing, one of t e contacts'in presence of two witnesses. being connectedto the distributer and theJOHN E. WARMAN. other being connected to the magneto and Witnesses: I 5a rotary interrupter within the casin actu- WALTON E. HOLMES, ated bythe passage of air therethroug THEODORE BINNEY.

